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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25
Medals and Premiums.
BOYS SCHOOL.
FIRST DIVISION.

FlftbI DlNlblON.
Silver Medals for excellence Masters Albert
and Robert VOORHEES,.
Premiums awarded for gentlemanly deport-
ment-Masters George Bailey. George Bancker
and Louis Duchamp.
SECOND DIVISION.
Silver medal for excellence Robert
Gary.
Premiums for Observation-Disclosures lgnatius
Bienyenu, Fernand Broussard.
For Amiability-Master Richard Lynch.
THIRD DIVISION.
Silver medal for excellence-Master Paul Woo
rhies.
Premiums awarded for spplication-Mssters
Paul Bertrand, Paul Fleming, Tom Darcy. Le-
saire Bienvenu, Oscar Durand, Duchamp Liable,
Henri Broussard, iDerneville DeBlanc, Louis
Daspit, Charley Lynch, Henri Olivier, johnnie
Burdin.
FOURTH DIVISION.
Premiums awarded for application Masters
Joseph Hitter, George Gary, Walter VOORHEES,,
Jack Daspit, Jules Resweber, Willie Hadley
Gilbert DeBlanc.
Premiums have also been awarded to the fol.
lowing boys Of the Junior class-Masters Ed.
mond Bulliard, George Livingstone. Prosper
Moity, Eddie knight, Carlos Bienvenu. Joseph
Delahoussaye. Louis Tertrou. Walter Broussard
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25
GIRLS SCHOOL.

FIRST DIVISION.
Silver medals for excellence-Misees NJ. De-
Laureal and Lucy Hart.
SECOND DIVISION.
Silver medal for excellence-Miss Josephine
Hitter.
Premiums for application-Misses Corelie
Rousseau, Aimee Gernaud, Laurence Lacase.
Marie Louise Bertrand, Ines Broussard, Anna
Liable, Aurelie St. German.
THIRD DIVISION.
Silver medal for excellence-Miss Cecile De-
Laueral.
Premiums awarded for application-Misses Ell
mira Hart, Cecile Bienvenu, Marie Berard Anita
MillCt, Adrienne Gueriniere, Celestine Bernard,
Edmonia Hebert, Marie Rose Thevenet.
Premiums awarded for Lady-like department
Misses Mathilde Landry, Elodie Gueriniere,
Nellie Darcy, Blanche Fleming. Adele Greig.
Marcelite Gauthier, Blanche Durand, Felicie
Durand, Cecile VOORHEES,.
Premiums have also been awarded to the fol-
lowing girls OF the Junior department-Misses
Marie Wiltz, Italia Bienvenu, Louise Olivier,
Roma Hebert, Lucie Bienvenu, Jeanne Lacaze,
Laurence Rousseau, Marie Bienvenu, Cecile
Moity, Katie Darcy, Marie Jaufroid, Leonie Ca
saubon, Gabrielle Bernard, Lucie VOORHEES,.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25

1t is time for Incorporate coffee drink
ers to reform.-Ouachita Telegraph.
What about the Incorporate whiskey
drinkers and tobacco chewers, Brother
Trousdale. Signal.
Incorporate whisker drinkers, hang
'em, tobacco chewers, pen 'em.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25

The machinery Of the moss factory
were put in motion Saturday last; every
thing worked satisfactorily, and several
bales of moss were ginned and baled.
This was only trial of the machinery,
but we will soon see the factory in full
blast under the energetic and enterpri-
sing control of Mr.. G.. l.. Lacaze.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25
RULES OF COURT.
Dist Judicial District of the State Of
Louisiana i'm and for the Parish Of
Ct Martin

st. Martin.
1st. On the first day of the term the docket Of
old cases, shall be called and cases at issue shall
be fixed for trial.
End On the second day of the term. the dock
ct Of new cases. shall be called and cases at issue
will be fixed for trial.
3rd No continued case or cases shall be recall
ed or assigned, either by motion of counsel OF
otherwise, except upon consent in open Court
of Counsel of all parties in said suit, and then
only without prejudice to any case then fixed.
4th. After reading the minutes, each Attorney
shall be called by the court, first for motion and
exceptions, 2nd. for taking of first defaults and
Srd. for combinations of defaults.
5th. All motions and exceptions shall stand
fixed for trial in the order in which they are filed
and shall be tried during the first hour after
calling for motions, exceptions and defaults
provided that whenever in the opinion OF the
Judge, the number of motions and exceptions
pending for trial shall necessitate, motions and
exceptions shall be called taken up and tried
after disposing of the other regular business of
the court.
9th. Defaults and combinations OF defaults
shall only be allowed or entered during the
morning hour and not thereafter.
7th. Articles ass and 4s8 Code Of Practice will
be strictly enforced.
sth. All appeals from inferior courts shall by
preference, be fixed and tried during the first
| week Of the term, and IL not 10 fixed and tried,
said preference will be lost.
These rules of court sholl take effect from and
after this day, and all others are abrogated.
| st Martinsville La, this 10th. day Of May A. ID.
1887.
true and correct copy lSigned] J.E. Mouton.
Attest W. B. Eastin Judge 2lst Judi District.
| Deputy Clerk of Court.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25

The steamers Teche and BarmOrewere
in port Wednesday morning. The Bar
more is running in competition to the
Teche, and should get share of the
merchants and planters freight, in order
to maintain competition which will re-
suit in lowering the freight charges the
coming season.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25
ENGLISH FEMALE BITrERs is il

ENGLISH FEMALE BITTERs is inten-
led for young girls as well as married
ladies, who have by some exposure be-
come irregular, pale and feeble, with
headache, leucorrhea, pain in the side
and back, falling of the womb, or female
weakedness or excesses. Its use streng-
thens and tones the stomach, invigOrates
the nerves imparts iron to the blood,
corrects irregular uterine action and re
moves unnatural distractions.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25
NOTICE.

The listing and estimation of the valuation of
all real and personal property in the parish OF
st Martin, being completed in accordance with
law The tax payers OF said parish are hereby
notified that the said lists Of assessments will be
exposed in my office at the Court House between
the legal hours for inspection and correetion for
a term of 20 days: beginning on the 18th day OF
June to the 4th day OF July 1881:
N1'o " SV. MARTIN, Assessor.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25
THE STRONGEST MAN IN OHIO.

Is said to be George c. Arnold Of
Cleveland O., who less than one year ago
owing to chronic liver trouble and
Bright's disease of the kidneys, weighed
less than ninety y-five pounds but by using
DIR. Harter's Iron Tonic has gained in
strentgh and weight until now he is ad-
mitted to be the giant of Ohio.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25

Sosthene Savoy, colored, was arrested and
jailed here Wednesday evening, charged OF hav-
ing way-laid and fired at his brother, Edmond
Savoy, with intent to commit murder, at dusk
Saturday evening, on the public road near the
ST John plantation
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25

A heavy rain poured down Monday
evening and Tuesday, this rain was much
needed in different parts of the parish,
the young corn, especially, was suffer-
ing. The hearts of our planters were
gladdened by this timely visit, and once
more are made happy and contented.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25

This is the time for the people to make
use of the whatewash brush, it would
give a good aspect to the town, and be-
sides, would be sanitary precaution, as
lime Is fair disinfectant.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25

The Robeline Reporter hoists, at its
mast head, the name of Hon. NJ. j. Cum
ningham, as its choice for Governor.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25

The only place to get nice and cool
beer is at B. Audibert's.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25

Where are you going Jack? why, at
B. Audibert's for glass of that nice
beer!
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25
Found Estray.

One red mule-cow with calf; another red COW.
and bull calf. Owners can have same by pro-
wing property and paying costs
June Is m. EDWARD SlLLAN'
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25

b. Audibert is the champion, he keeps
the incest and coolest beer.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-06-25

Beer Beer always on ice at B. Au
dibert's.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-06-16
N.poieon,s Legacy to France.

Between 1904 and 1915 he has had
slaughtered more than 1,700,O
Frenchmen born within the boundaries
of ancient France, to which must be
added, probably, 2,OOO.OOO of men born
out of these limits, and all for him,
under the title of allies, or slain on his
account, under the title of enemies.
All that the poor, enthusiastic, and
credulous Gauls have gained by con-
tiding their public welfare to him is
two invasiOns; all that he bequeaths to
them as reward for their devotion,
after this prodigons waste of their
blood and the blood of others, is a
France shorn of fifteen departments
acquired by the public, deprived of
Savoy, the left bank of the Rhine, and
of Belgium, despoiled of the northeast
angle by which it completed its bound
aries, fortified its most vulnerable point,
and, using the words of Vauban, ssmade
the field square," losing four millions
of new Frenchmen which it had as
simulated after twenty years of life in
common; and, worse still, thrown back
within the frontiers of 1889, alone
diminished in the midst of its aggrand-
lied neighbors, suspected by all
Europe, and lastingly surrounded by a
threatening circle of distrust and ran
cor.-H. Tdine, in Ne1O Princeton Re-
Gie1U.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-06-16
A Congressman Abroad.

] heard a good story to-day about
an ex-congressman from New Jersey
who recently made q tour through
Europe with party of friends. When
he got to Paris he sought out the Amer
lean legation and burst in on the sec
retary in charge at the time, in tow
ering rage.
He complained to the secretary in
very violent language that he had been
robbed by the railway officials. They
had refused to let him or his party out
at the depot when they arrived in
Paris, without the payment OF very
considerable number of francs. He
thought it an outrage that a distin-
guiShed American or his friends could
not travel through France without
paying tribute to brigands. He wanted
the secretary of the legation to write
at once to the president of the railway
demanding the instant return of the
money he had been unwarrantably
compelled to pay.
Tell him who | am, he said, land
he'll come down promptly with the
ducats-francs, | mean"
Then the secretary, first soothing
him with sympathetic expressions,
uEeW IIOill Hlfll SOIhC 1dCIS hS
had omitted to state.
Yes, he had surrendered his railway
ticket His friends had surrendered
theirs.
And yes, he had received small
piece of green paper in exchange.
Yes, it had some printing on it. but
it was French nonsense of some sort
gibberish; he couldn't make head or
tail of it.
.sWhat did you do with ite" asked
the secretary.
s.Why, l threw it out of the win
dow" he replied. Il didn't want it;
some French trash, anyway. Then,
when l got to Paris, and we started to
walk out of the depot, just as we do at
home, by George! they stopped us, and
wouldn't let us go out because we
didn't have that internal piece of green
paper.
1T took ME half an hour to find out
what they wanted, for none of them
could speak English, and | couldn'l
understand their gibberish But
finally made out that they wanted that
piece of paper or the money l told you
about l saw there was no other way
out, so handed over the money"
Il
The secretary understood it all then.
He told the distinguished son of New
Jersey that he would make the re-
quired demand upon the railway com
pany at once, and so sent him happily
| to his hotel.
Then he sat down and made the best
story he could out of it, in letter tC
the president of the railway.
The latter replied in "a politely sar
castle note, inclosing the money in
question, expressing his regret at th'
occurrence, and winding up with Al
expression of his sympathy with the
constituency represented in the Amer
lean congress by such man as th'
statesman from New Jersey.
The secretary of legation, of course
returned the money with the expires
sion of regret, but not with the ex
preston of sympathy. - Philadelphia
Record.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-06-16
Who Said Them?

Who wrote the letters of Jupius?
1t is generally conceded that Sir Philip
Francis did, but there is no certainty
about it. 1t has been well said, how
ever, that the time spent in trying to
find out who Junius was would be
better expended in learning to write
as well as Junius wrote.
God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb" was long believed to be from
the scriptures. But Sterne wrote it in
his Sentimental Journey"
This is the time when these ques-
tions come up like Banquo's ghost
(tMacbeth," scene 2, act III.), and
will not ''down" until traced to their
proper lineage.
A correspondent asks: ''Who orig
mated the phrase, Pouring oil on the
troubled waters That discussion
came up here in Detroit some five
years ago. A lady riding in Cass
avenue horse-car asked another lady
if she knew. Then a gentleman offer
ed to write to a friend of HIS: fell
low of Edinburgh college, and, taking
the address of the lady, he gave his
own. In the course of some months
the letter came, and DIR. Samuel Leg
gett copied this part of it into his
Webster's Dictionary of quotations,
where it is recorded in his fine, schol-
arly handwriting:
The venerable Bede says: "A priest
called Utta was sent into Kent to fetch
Lanplede, King Edwines daughter,
who was married to King Oswin, A. D.
617. Before his departure Utta WIS.,
tied Bishop Sida and besought his
nT.aVQrl for n 1NrnSnaro.rS innrnau Tho
bishop blessed him and gave him pot
of oil, saying: Remember that you
cast into the sea this oyle that 1 will
give you, and the wind being laid
comfortable fayre weather shall ensue
ON the sea-"
This has nothing to do with that IA
miliar phrase burning the midnight
oil
Whence is thy learning2 Hath thy toll
Ger books consumed the midnight oil?
This couplet was written by Cav
and used by many of the English
bards.
There is another popular quotation
which has been run to the ground re-
Gently:
Where ignorance is bliss,
"Tfs folly to be wise.
This was written by the poet GRAY
in a poem on Eton college.
"When Greek meets Greek, then
comes the tug of war;" is popular
misquotation from when Greeks
joined Greeks, then was the tug of
war, written by N. Lee, who died in
1892.
The majority of readers will insist
that cleanliness is next to godliness"
is in the bible, but it is not. John
Wesley said in this wise: Certainly
this is duty, not sin; cleanliness is,
indeed, next to godliness. From whom
did he quote?-Detroit Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-06-16
Where Irving is Buried.

From paper by Clarence Cook.
accompanied by a protrait, in the Gem
tury, we quote as follows: 81 confess
/ heard not without secret pleasure
that the relic-hunters so chip and ham,
mer the stone that marks Irvings
grave as to make its frequent renewal
necessary. 1t did not seem to me a
grievous wrong, nor in any true sense
a PROCLAMATION of the grave, but rather
a testimony to the lovableness of Irv-
ings character, and an evidence of the
wide extent of his fame, that, from
filling the circle of the educated and
refined among his countrymen, has
now come to include that lower
stratum of our common humanity
which has only instructive and, so to
speak, mechanical ways of expressing
its feelings.
ut would not have been easy to find
a place more in harmony with the
associations that gather about Irving's
name as a writer than the spot in
which he is buried Even to-day, with
all the changes that have been brought
about by the growth of the neighbor-
ing settlement, the spirit of peace and
quiet that used to brood over the
region hovers there undisturbed. Irv-
ing's own words, in the Legend of
Sleepy Hollow describing the grave
yard, the old church, and the stream
that plays about its feet, reflect with
the faithfulness of mirror the scene
as we behold it to-day.
Here is the church, a small build
ing with rough sides of the country
stone, surmounted by a picturesque
roof, and with an open bell-turret over
which still veers the vane pierced with
the initials of the Vrederick Felypsen
who built the church and endowed it
in 1899. In our rambles about the
graveyard we used to find the bricks
of light-colored clay, brought from
Holland, and of which, so tradition
said, the church had been originally
built, or which had, at any rate, been
largely used in its construction.
.'The church was seldom used, ex-
cept in the summertime. On COM
munion Sundays the handsome seven
teenth-century Jacobean table of oak
brought from Holland, where plenty
like it may still be found, was set out,
as it is to-day, with the plain vessels
of silver presented by Queen Anne.
as the formula goes, that used to
please my childish taste for things that
had about them the flavor of old days.
1.-The same budding taste for antiqui-
ties led me and some of my school
mates to the old graveyard, where we
hunted up the oldest tombstones.
scraping off the moss and ichens to
decipher the names and dates, and en-
ioying many laugh over their carved
ornaments, scrolls, and cockle-shells,
and sturdy, dew-lapped, Dutch cher
ubs, with their stumpy little wings
| scored like checker-boards for plum
age. Many of these grave-stones were
said to have been imported from Hol.
land by the early settlers, like the
bricks of which the church was built,
the table in the church, and much OF
the furniture to be found in the farm
houses of the countryside, chairs and
tables, cupboards, and even looking.
glasses. The carvings, memorial Yer.
ses, and scripture-teXts upon these
tombstnnes were cut by the more skill
| full workmen overseas, and the name;
and dates were filled in here at home
as occasion called"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-06-16
Oats and MatrimOny.

When the waving surface of the
green oat-ields begin to assume gold
en- TIM, when the swelling heads of
Indian corn hang heavy on their
stalks, and the sweating peasant pre-
pares for the last act of his hard sum-
mer labor, then also do the good wives
in the village begin to talk of matters
which have been lying dormant till
now.
Well-informed people may have
limited before that such and such a
youth had been seen more than once
stepping in at the gate of the red or
green house in the long village street,
and more than one gossip had been
ready to identify the speckled carna-
tions adorning the hat of some youth
full Konrad or Thomas as having been
grown in the garden of a certain An
ma or Maria; but, after all, these had
been but mere conjectures, for moth
ing positive could be known as yet,
and ill-natured people were apt to
console themselves with the reflection
that st. Katharine's day was a long
way off, and that there's many a slip
'twixt cup and lip
But now the great day which will
dispel all doubt, and put an end to
surmise, is approaching-that day
which will destroy SO many illusions
and fulfill so few; for now the sun had
given the last touch to the ripened
grain and soon the golden sheaves
are lying piled together on the clean
shorn stubble-field, only waiting to be
carted away. Then one evening when
the sun is sinking low on the horizon,
and clouds of dust along the high
road announce the approach of the re-
turning cattle, drum is heard in the
village street, and a voice proclaims
that tomorrow the oats are to be
fetched home" Like wildfire this
news has spread throughout the vii
lage; the cry is taken up and repeated
from mouth to mouth with various in
donations Of hope, curiosity, anticipa-
ton of triumph-''To-morr the oats
will be fetchedT
A stranger, no doubt, fails to per-
ceive anything particularly thrilling
about this intelligence, having no
reason to suppose the bringing in OF
oats to be in any way more interesting
than the carting of potatoes or wheat;
and to the majority of landowners
the thought of to-morrow's work is
chiefly connected with dry, prosaie
details, such as repairing the harness
and oiling the cart-wheels; but there
are others in the village on whom the
announcement has an electrifying eff
feet, and for whom the words are sy.
nonymous with love and wedding.
bells.-"Among the TransylUania Sa1-
ons, ia Popular Science Monthly.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-06-16
GIadstone's Physical Strength.

To return a moment to Mr.. Glad
stone A medical gentleman who
knows him very well-professiOnalfy,
too. if | am not mistaken-tells me
that he is still one of the strongest
men physically in the whole gentry of
England. 1t is a marvellous thing to
see him stripped to the waist, SO su-
perb is his frame, so notable is the
absence of an ounce of superf1Ous
flesh on the hard sinews and muscles.
Ny informant added that, in his be-
lief, there was scarcely man in the
House, young or old. whom Gladstone
could not whip with his fists if he
tried. This is an interesting illustra-
ton of the value of exercise which
Americans would do well to ponder
London Letter.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-06-16
What the Queen Wanted.

One of the first things Queen Victoria
did on hearing that William ". was
dead and that she had succeeded to
the throne was to call one of her
mothers ladies-in-waiting. '.Am I
really queen?" ked the excited
princess. "You are, indeed, madame, I"
replied the lady-in-waiting. ''And l
can do what choose, by rightp" con-
tinued Victoria. Certainly, your
majesty" Then get me cup of green
tea Mamma never would let me have
it; now mean to know what harm it
can do me-" And the young queen
drank three cups, had a violent fit OF
the shivers and has never liked tea
since.-The Argondst.